Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Alex Osterwalder, entrepreneur, “Business Model Generation” author and creator of the Business Model Canvas, discusses how enterprise architects can contribute to business models. He suggests that there needs to be a bridge between Enterprise Architecture and the highest strategic level of business, bringing strategic and implementation concepts together. Continue reading →
The United States Navy released it’s department of Defense and the Navy (DON) Enterprise Architecture Framework on 4.0. Like with all other US government agencies they are federally mandated to have enterprise architecture (EA) established to support their IT strategies…
Todd Biske on why scope is where project management and enterprise architecture come into conflict.
Heal the Eternal Disconnect Between Project Managers and Enterprise Architects!:
Excellent rumination on the relationship between project management and enterprise architecture. From,
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Design is scope.
The budget is a fence that will make good neighbours of project management and architecture.
The more design (scoping) you do before the budget the better.
The less design (changing scope) you do after the budget the better.
The Open Group has moved the technology industry forward yet again with its second international standard on SOA.The Open Group SOA Governance Framework is now an International Standard, having passed its six month ratification vote in ISO and IEC. This…
In my previous post, I talked about how Enterprise Architects can (and should) drive cloud strategy and planning. Today, I would like us to take a look at a larger issue for EAs, CIOs, and anyone invested in IT strategy…
How can we use a vision or story as the anchor for an organisation’s business and enterprise? How do we link that story to decisions and actions in everyday business? This is a theme that came up in a great…
If you’re an enterprise-architect and you haven’t yet come across Ric Phillips‘ wonderful EA Patterns blog, go over there right now: you’re in for a treat! To mix metaphors somewhat, I’d have to say it’s a national-treasure for the trade.…
While the customers and stakeholders are not complaining, little can be done. This is the main reason for the lethargy of EA.
Architecture-by-definition is an anti-pattern.
The goal of a definition is to remove noise.
You add another layer of noise when your definitions are model-specific sub-definitions for commonly understood terms. For example: service, product, capability, or system.
Special definitions introduce an additional cognitive load that easily outweighs the benefits of a more sophisticated model.
What happens when people get too fixated on the ‘boxes’ in our models and frameworks? And what can we do about it in enterprise-architecture? This one’s actually a follow-on to the previous post about ‘It depends…‘, but it starts with…
